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Do you save your coffee grounds or lawn clippings in a little tub at home? Well you better start. Seattle Public Utilities has sent out compost requirement notices. On March 30th all residents are required to compost their food waste. Yes, it's a requirement. Not an option. You will be charged for this additional service and the only way to "avoid" it is to say you already compost at home. How will they know you already compost at home? My friend called the Seattle Public Utility to find out. He was told that they will send a city inspector to your house to make sure your system is up to code. Inspector compost on the case.
This compost law wasn't voted on. It was made by the mayor alone. The information on the internet is sparse... but the notice is clear: You will compost.
I'm for composting. I'm for the city making it easy for us to be more 'green'. But is forcing people to compost the way to do this? Shouldn't it be a personal choice? Should we have compost inspectors enforcing this? Wouldn't this be a smart choice that home owners would have made of their own will after reading about the benefits? It's already required to recycle in Seattle (it's also free), and we're all used to that. Will composting become as natural as setting aside glass and cardboard?
Friday, January 9, 2009
Compost Requirement for Seattle Homes
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This compost program is for the birds. First, it's definitely not family friendly. It’s fine if you are single or married without children and don't cook but if you have a family and try to make ends meet by eating in, its impossible to keep the smelly stuff in your home. It stinks like a garbage dump. We have tried to put the "compost materials" in plastic sacks then transfer the stuff into the little green cart on the curb and throw out the plastic sack into the garbage. This doesn’t work because the compost doesn't get picked up because an egg carton (which was allowed according to the documentation sent by the city) was still in the compost container. The city says to pack the stuff in news paper then place it into the little green compost container...... great.....Tell the PI. Second, leaving the stuff outside for the raccoons, rats, cats and dogs is not reasonable. Talk about a health hazard !!! Having to clean up after the critters (apparently city owned) is a real drag and a messy one at that. Maybe we should all just leave the stuff in the gutter for the city to clean up. Third, every time we turn around, the City of Seattle is in our pocket. All the city does is to charge more. It is eliminating transportation options by restricting vehicle traffic, plans on squeezing 6 lanes of traffic into a 4 lane tunnel, eliminate auto lanes where thousands of vehicles used to travel for a few bicycles and placing city offices where no parking is available at a reasonable cost. Recently the city lost litigation against it for trying to charge too much for a utility. The city now has to pay the public for the loss but the court jesters and the Emperor have decided to add an extra fee to the utility make up for the loss caused by the court battle. The city wants to have family wage jobs in Seattle and an industrial basis but makes it too expensive to live here. As a result, employees live out side of Seattle and out side of the reach of our Emperor. I suspect Emperor Nichols and his court jesters have now spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars on a composting project that literally stinks. It seems to me that money like this could be better spent. I hope the Emperor will wake up to the fact that the silent majority is beginning to get ticked. Is there only a few of us that think the controlling city government is overstepping their bounds? Does any body know what we need to do to get some of these ill advised Emperor driven programs changed?
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